OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of World Business is 20. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries	232
Editorial Board	147
Artificial intelligence in international business: IB theory under augmented decision-making	128
Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership	96
What subnational analysis could mean for IB research? Evidence for home bias reversals based on catchment area alcohol sales in Ontario	86
Imitation and rapid internationalization of emerging market firms	79
Co-evolutionary decoupling in EMNEs’ internationalisation: A Chinese bank's journey of drifting apart from the US-led global financial system	76
Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts	74
Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect	73
Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”	57
(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts	56
Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment	55
The Trojan horse of international entrepreneurship in the MENA region: Locus of control and the export of corruption	49
Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas	45
Cluster Internationalization to Tax Havens by Multinational Enterprises: An Exploration of Imitative Behaviour	43
The attention-based view and the multinational corporation: Review and research agenda	41
When social movements close institutional voids: Triggers, processes, and consequences for multinational enterprises	41
Cycles of de-internationalization and re-internationalization: Towards an integrative framework	40
CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs	40
Improving subsidiary performance via inpatriate assignments: The role of host country national subsidiary CEOs’ social ties and motivational cultural intelligence	40
Female entrepreneurs and international entry mode choice: Evidence from entrepreneurial firms in China	39
Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership	37
Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors	37
Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory	37
Strategic vulnerabilities of emerging market MNCs – How litigation experiences in weak patent systems increase the risks of patent litigation abroad	35

Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit	35
Editorial Board	35
Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets	34
Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective	34
Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth	34
International product adaptation and performance: A systematic analysis of the literature and agenda for future research	33
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment	33
Unlearning diversity management	33
Divorce or temporary separation? Lessons from the US’s history of decoupling with China and other nations	32
Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches	31
A comparative evaluation of seven instruments for measuring values comprising Hofstede's model of culture	30
Towards a dynamic theory of lateral collaboration across multinational enterprise structures: A collection of insights	29
A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies	29
Institutional fragility and internationalization of Indian firms: Moderating effects of inward FDI and linkages	28
The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs	27
International business under sanctions	27
Editorial Board	26
Making the unlikely marriage work: The integration process of Chinese strategic asset-seeking acquisitions	26
How do entrepreneurs' cross-cultural experiences contribute to entrepreneurial ecosystem performance?	25
Editorial Board	24
The Impact of International Mergers and Acquisitions on Rivals’ Performance: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions	24
Editorial Board	24
Orchestrating ecosystem resources in a different country: Understanding the integrative capabilities of sharing economy platform multinational corporations	23
Modeling a country's political environment using dynamic factor analysis (DFA): A new methodology for IB research	22
A double-edged sword? Founder Teams' Prior International Experience and INV International Scale-up	22
Foreign identity and organizational crises: Evidence in the U.S. automobile industry	21
International business theory and the criminal multinational enterprise	21
Editorial Board	21
Editorial Board	20
On religion as an institution in international business: Executives’ lived experience in four African countries	20
Opportunism and trust in cross- national lateral collaboration: the Renault-Nissan Alliance and a theory of equity-trust	20
Cultural Heterozygosity: Towards a New Measure of Within-Country Cultural Diversity	20
Winning intellectual property rights lawsuits in China	20